Lamentaciones 3:5

5 Me sitió y me rodeó
de angustia y aflicción.

Lamentaciones 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:5

He hath builded against me
Fortresses, as the Targum adds; as when forts and batteries were raised by the Chaldeans against the city of Jerusalem, in which the prophet was: and compassed [me] with gall and travail;
or "weariness" ^F5; the same with gall and wormwood, ( Lamentations 3:19 ) ; as Jarchi observes. The sense is, he was surrounded with sorrow, affliction, and misery, which were as disagreeable as gall; or like poison that drank up his spirits, and made him weary of his life. Thus our Lord was exceeding sorrowful, even unto death; (perilupov) , encompassed with sorrows, ( Matthew 26:38 ) . The Targum is,

``he hath surrounded the city, and rooted up the heads of the people, and caused them to fail.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (haltw) "et fatigatione", Montanus, Vatablus, Castalio.

Lamentaciones 3:5 In-Context

3 Volvió su mano contra mí
una y otra vez, todo el día.

4 Hizo que mi piel y mi carne envejecieran;
quebró mis huesos.

5 Me sitió y me rodeó
de angustia y aflicción.

6 Me enterró en un lugar oscuro,
como a los que habían muerto hace tiempo.

7 Me cercó con un muro, y no puedo escapar;
me ató con pesadas cadenas.